Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2, sentence 15
At last he arrives at the end of his journey, finds the aged mendicant who had adopted him as his brother, and recognizes him as "the Lord Jesus Christ Himself."
Who acts: beggar · What happens: arrive, find, adopt, recognize, journey · To what, where: last, end, aged mendicant, beggar
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Chapter VI. LEGENDS, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beggar), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 finds | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 arrives | nsubj |
| 4 | arrives | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 last | acl:relcl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 end | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 end | det |
| 7 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arrives | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 journey | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 journey | nmod:poss |
| 10 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 end | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 12 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mendicant | det |
| 14 | aged | aged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mendicant | amod |
| 15 | mendicant | mendicant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 finds | obj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 adopted | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 adopted | aux |
| 18 | adopted | adopt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 mendicant | acl:relcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 adopted | obj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 brother | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 brother | nmod:poss |
| 22 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 adopted | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 recognizes | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 recognizes | cc |
| 25 | recognizes | recognize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 finds | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 recognizes | obj |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 Christ | case |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 Christ | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Christ | det |
| 30 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Jesus | compound |
| 31 | Jesus | Jesus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Christ | compound |
| 32 | Christ | Christ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 recognizes | obl |
| 33 | Himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 32 Christ | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 finds | punct |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 finds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | present | beggar | last not said here | at the end of beggar's journey | tree rules | |||
| 2 | find | present | the aged mendicant | last | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent mendicant=Theme at last=Asset | ||||
| 3 | adopt | past · perfect · passive | the aged mendicant | as beggar's brother | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme he=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | recognize | present | beggar | as the Jesus Christ beggar | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus as christ=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | journey | beggar | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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